Colorado School of Trades (CST) is the oldest and largest Gunsmithing School in the United States. The Colorado School of Trades has been teaching Gun smithing since 1947. We prepare our students for an exciting career as a Gunsmith. Gunsmiths spend their workday repairing and building custom firearms, operating lathes and mills, and performing detailed wood shaping and finishing. Their machinists skills are on display every day.

School Highlights

Colorado School of Trades serves 196 students (100% of students are full-time).

The college's student:teacher ratio of 16:1 is lower than the state community college average of 37:1.

Minority enrollment is 19% of the student body (majority American and Asian), which is less than the state average of 35%.

Colorado School of Trades is one of 4 community colleges within Jefferson County, CO.

Finances and Admission

% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid

58%

89%

Source: 2014 (latest year available) IPEDS

School Notes

For decades, Colorado School of Trades has been teaching students to become gunsmiths and
farriers. As a horseshoeing school and a gunsmith school, Colorado School of Trades not only provides a valuable link to our past, it also provides students with the valuable training they need for their futures!
Gunsmithing schools and horseshoeing schools aren't easy to find in today's world, but the demand for skilled professionals is still there. At Colorado School of Trades, you can learn your new trade in as little as five months for Horseshoeing or 14 months for Gunsmithing. Experienced farriers are needed to shoe racehorses, show horses, horses that are worked and horses that are ridden. Professional gunsmiths are needed to service guns used not only by local hunters but also military or police!
In the Colorado School of Trades' state of the art Farrier Shop, we prepare our students for
an exciting career as a Self-employed Horseshoer. Our graduates work in the great outdoors shoeing horses and working with hammer, anvil and forge, building custom and therapeutic shoes for their clients' horses.

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Did You Know?

For Colorado public community colleges, the average tuition is approximately $2,962 per year for in-state students and $10,704 for out-of-state students. For private community colleges, the average yearly tuition is approximately $15,660 per year. Read more about average community college tuition costs across the country.